installing libs from source

[Ed Greshko]

Brandon Rambo wrote:
> hey all,
> ok I may just be over looking something but I'm trying to install a lib
> required by this other program that I have downloaded... and i complie
> the lib (./configure, make, make install) and then use libtool to cp it
> to /usr/lib and when I do the ./configure on the other program it still
> says that i dont have it... am i missing something?

Not sure why you'd use libtool.  Normally when you "make install" it
installs the library files in some location, often /usr/local/lib, and all
you need do is run "ldconfig".


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